root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On September 14, 2006 9:42 PM you wrote: | > > | > > > > > As far as I can see PLF is defined in Makefile.pamphlet | > > but never | > > > > > used anywhere in the source. | > > > > > | > > > > > I suggest we delete it before somebody tries to use it. We don't | > > > > > need more flags and special cases in the source if we can avoid | > > > > > it. | > | > Damn. So I guess it's too late. This stuff is everywhere. ;) | | Yeah, most of those conditionals are what make the C code hard to port.
no harder than the lisp non-portable sutff all over the place in the Axiom source code. I don't think we have a perfect language match here in terms of portability. I've coded for longtime in C and C++; I don't think this particular is stuff is handled the proper way. [...] | C is the least portable language there is (I know because I had to | figure out most of those conditionals). That's one major motivation | toward rewriting it in lisp. Please, no. Lisp does not look more portable than C to me. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
